Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

[Dale <dalek1967@bellsouth.net>]

Justin Findlay wrote:
> On AD 2008 January 20 Sunday 06:48:10 AM -0600, Dale wrote:
>   
>> Funnier still, they recently went up on dial-up.  It costs more than DSL
>> does.  Oh, since I am on the net so much, they also charge me for the
>> time on the phone too.  I end up paying about $30 to $40 a month for
>> internet costs.  Funny huh?  DSL is $19.95 a month.  Me being disabled
>> makes it even more fun.  I'm wanting DSL to save money right now.  I
>> should save about $20 a month or so plus have a faster connection.
>>     
>
> I pay $40/month for 14 Mib up and down and I can run it at max
> throughput indefinitely.  I seeded all 92 gentoo torrents for a month
> once to test this out. :-)  Here in Utah, USA we have the largest
> community fiber network in the country called UTOPIA.  I'm only on
> iProvo, but on UTOPIA they can get 50 Mib for a residential link.
>
>
> Justin
>   

I wish I lived in Utopia.  LOL  :-p  Well, I made some progress while I
was napping.  I'm here now:

>>> Emerging (31 of 205) kde-base/libkdeedu-4.0.0 to /
>>> Downloading
'ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2'
--10:48:22-- 
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp.ussg.iu.edu... 156.56.247.193
Connecting to ftp.ussg.iu.edu|156.56.247.193|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2 ... done.
Length: 41,886,885 (40M) (unauthoritative)

23% [==========>                                       ] 9,760,968     
2.61K/s  ETA 4:48:59

Exiting on signal 2
root@smoker / #   

I had to stop it to send in a folding unit thingy.  Can't do more than
one thing at a time on this connection.  :-(   Even Kopete pitches a fit
sometimes.  It's 12:40 now, so by dark I should have that ONE completed.
;-)

Dang, 14Mbs both ways.  < Dale drools and slobbers everywhere >

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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